Song to get you through the week: 'Dark Sunglasses' by Chrissie Hynde

Published Monday April 7, 2014 at 4:50 pm

Updated Monday April 7, 2014 at 5:02 pm

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Chrissie Hynde, in 2000

Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde has always delivered a song with style and bite. What else would you expect from the pop-punk pioneer who brought such songs as “Brass in Pocket” and “Tattooed Love Boys”?

With “Dark Sunglasses” — the first single off of Hynde's debut solo album, “Stockholm,” which is set to be released in June — Hynde proves she's still capable of delivering a swipe and a smirk in the same lyrical shot.

“Dark Sunglasses” a derisive little sneer of a song, the up-tempo power punk verve barely obscuring a sort of contempt for everyday domestication and fallen high-life refugees, the titular dark sunglasses proving an empty symbol of glamour and cool. The video, on the other hand, finds director Steve Glashier, according to the music website StereoGum, rolling “through Austin documenting everyday people rocking dark specs.” The song snaps its teeth at the superficial, and the video celebrates the authentic, and the combination is terribly endearing. (Victor D. Infante)